Daily Dothttp://www.dailydot.com/Daily Dot Articleen-usMon, 31 Dec 2012 16:24:43 +0000Saudi man divorces wife for using Twitterhttp://www.dailydot.com/news/saudi-man-divorces-wife-twitter-secret/<p><img src='http://cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/ad/33/ad3300d03d5fea71be842e2b0cb6da10.jpg'></p><p>
A Saudi Arabian man divorced his wife after she kept her Twitter account hidden from him. He asked her to delete it upon discovering she had both male and female followers.</p>
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She refused, according to <a href="http://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/wife-divorced-tweeting-behind-husband-back-000000638.html">Arab News</a>, and after the husband decided to divorce her, the woman returned to her father&#39;s home (in Saudi Arabia&#39;s patriarchal society, a woman must have a male guardian).</p>
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The woman refused an offer to delete the account in exchange for a payment from her husband, claiming his demands were not justified and that merely having a Twitter account could not be grounds for such a large-scale dispute. Still, efforts to reunite the couple continue, with the family members saying the reconciliation offer may be doubled.</p>
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In a country in which men can track their wives <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/news/saudi-arabia-text-messaging-wives-women/">using text message</a>, women are not allowed to drive, and gender segregation has reached the point where women-only cities are <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/worldviews/2012/08/15/women-only-saudi-arabia-further-segregates-society/">being built</a>, it might not come as too much of a surprise that a husband would not want his wife sharing her thoughts with the rest of the world without consulting him first.</p>
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<em>Photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/faceme/7988345539/sizes/c/in/photostream/">FaceMePLS</a>/Flickr</em></p>
kris@dailydot.com (Kris Holt)Mon, 31 Dec 2012 16:24:43 +0000http://www.dailydot.com/news/saudi-man-divorces-wife-twitter-secret/SocietyNewsTwitter